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Honourable Michael Bryant to discuss
trade and investment strategies at Ivey
conference
TORONTO,
ON, March 31, 2009 – The election of
United States President Barack Obama and
the world economic turmoil have
transformed the United States, so Canada
must move quickly to adopt new
strategies to work with its neighbour
and largest trading partner. The
Lawrence National Centre at the Richard
Ivey School of Business will host a
workshop at the InterContinental Hotel
Yorkville on April 6 on redefining the
strong Canada-United States partnership.
Opening
with an address by Thomas d'Aquino,
Chief Executive and President, Canadian
Council of Chief Executives, the
workshop will take participants through
business strategies, the economics,
politics and trade and investment plans.
Ed Clark,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
TD Bank Financial Group, and Tom
Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief
Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation,
will discuss "The United States in
Crisis: Strategies for Canadian
Business".
The
Honourable Michael Bryant, Ontario
Minister of Economic Development, will
give the keynote luncheon address on
"The Canada-United States Partnership:
Trade and Investment Strategies in the
Obama Era".
Tackling
the theme of "The Politics and Economics
of a Transformed America: How Should
Canada Respond?" will be Don Drummond,
Senior VP and Chief Economist, TD Bank
Financial Group; Fen Hampson, Director,
Norman Paterson School of International
Affairs, Carleton University; Michael
Hart, Simon Reisman Chair in Trade
Policy, Professor, Norman Paterson
School of International Affairs,
Carleton University; and William Robson,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
C.D. Howe Institute.
"In this
time of unprecedented international
change, Canadian companies need to step
up with the knowledge, the skills and
the flexibility to thrive," said Dianne
Cunningham, Director, Lawrence National
Centre for Policy and Management at the
Richard Ivey School of Business.
"Canadian
companies are some of the best in the
world," said Thomas d'Aquino of the
Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
"There are undoubtedly challenges ahead,
but there are also enormous
opportunities. Business and governments
must work closely together to implement
winning strategies."
Event:
Redefining the Canada-United States
Partnership in the Obama Era
Date: April 6, 2009
Time: 7:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Location: InterContinental Hotel
Yorkville, 220 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Media
interested in attending must RSVP by
April 3rd. Please contact Dawn Milne at
519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
About the Richard Ivey School of
Business, The University of Western
Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at
The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca)
offers undergraduate (HBA)
and graduate degree programs (MBA,
Executive MBA and
PhD) in addition to non-degree
Executive Development programs. Ivey has
campuses in London (Ontario),
Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey
recently redesigned its curriculum to
focus on
Cross-Enterprise Leadership – a
holistic issues-based approach to
management education that meets the
demands of today's complex global
business world.
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For more
information, please contact:
Dawn Milne, Communications Specialist,
Richard Ivey School of Business,
519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
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